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Quote:Nintendo has confirmed that its Wii U Virtual Console will launch in the U.S. on Tuesday.
At launch, a full roster of NES and SNES titles will be available including hits like Super Mario World, F-Zero, Excitebike, Donkey Kong Jr, Super Metroid and Mega Man.

For free and open sourced, right? I mean logic of advancement in technology, civilization, and social development dictate you wouldn't actually have the face to charge people for 20 to 30 year-old games. Considering the already arbitrarily and artificial constraints on non-scarce resources in place, and the wholly unfair wealth redistribution over the past 20 years.

Quote:Nintendo has confirmed that its Wii U Virtual Console will launch in the U.S. on Tuesday.
At launch, a full roster of NES and SNES titles will be available including hits like Super Mario World, F-Zero, Excitebike, Donkey Kong Jr, Super Metroid and Mega Man.

For free and open sourced, right? I mean logic of advancement in technology, civilization, and social development dictate you wouldn't actually have the face to charge people for 20 to 30 year-old games. Considering the already arbitrarily and artificial constraints on non-scarce resources in place, and the wholly unfair wealth redistribution over the past 20 years.

Right, because no one would ever pay for anything greater than 10 years old. I mean, NOTHING older than 20 years has ANY value, monetary or not. EVER.

Congratulations, you're the first person I've ever called entitled over the internet.

It is kinda a gip to make someone repurchase their nes games when the whole reason they cannot play them on the old console is a terrible slot design. Then again, anyone who can't figure out a simple emulator kinda deserves it.

Yeah that's why Earthbound is selling for over $200 a cart now on Ebay when it was $80 last year. Kinda surprised it took Nintendo this long to put it on the VC list being how it's popularity has soared over the last few years

Originally posted by Bigwillyz: Yeah that's why Earthbound is selling for over $200 a cart now on Ebay when it was $80 last year. Kinda surprised it took Nintendo this long to put it on the VC list being how it's popularity has soared over the last few years

Jeez, now I want to play it (Earthbound).

Still, it's more of Ninty resting on it's laurels. Harking back to the glory days.

Quote:Nintendo has confirmed that its Wii U Virtual Console will launch in the U.S. on Tuesday.
At launch, a full roster of NES and SNES titles will be available including hits like Super Mario World, F-Zero, Excitebike, Donkey Kong Jr, Super Metroid and Mega Man.

For free and open sourced, right? I mean logic of advancement in technology, civilization, and social development dictate you wouldn't actually have the face to charge people for 20 to 30 year-old games. Considering the already arbitrarily and artificial constraints on non-scarce resources in place, and the wholly unfair wealth redistribution over the past 20 years.

Right, because no one would ever pay for anything greater than 10 years old. I mean, NOTHING older than 20 years has ANY value, monetary or not. EVER.

Congratulations, you're the first person I've ever called entitled over the internet.

once again, an actual entitled, spoiled, brat like you have been brainwashed into confusing 'value' with 'price'. No wonder western society is such a brain-dead culture.

Quote:Nintendo has confirmed that its Wii U Virtual Console will launch in the U.S. on Tuesday.
At launch, a full roster of NES and SNES titles will be available including hits like Super Mario World, F-Zero, Excitebike, Donkey Kong Jr, Super Metroid and Mega Man.

For free and open sourced, right? I mean logic of advancement in technology, civilization, and social development dictate you wouldn't actually have the face to charge people for 20 to 30 year-old games. Considering the already arbitrarily and artificial constraints on non-scarce resources in place, and the wholly unfair wealth redistribution over the past 20 years.

Right, because no one would ever pay for anything greater than 10 years old. I mean, NOTHING older than 20 years has ANY value, monetary or not. EVER.

Congratulations, you're the first person I've ever called entitled over the internet.

once again, an actual entitled, spoiled, brat like you have been brainwashed into confusing 'value' with 'price'. No wonder western society is such a brain-dead culture.

Of course there has been unfair wealth distribution over past 20years and a glaring indictment of the self-serving ideology of trickle-down economics BUT what has that got to do with it? The connection is tenuous don't you think?

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This message has been edited since its posting. Latest edit was made on 22 Apr 2013 @ 1:47

I honestly don't see the problem. As noted above, the games won't likely be very expensive, and Nintendo certainly has every right to try to sell its own product, old or not. After all, even Nintendo should know you can easily emulate the entire NES/SNES library on a smartphone, including every game ever made for either system on the same phone. So, unless they're certifiably insane or submoronic, they'll just charge a minor "convenience fee".

Of course, they may very well be bugnuts crazy or waterbrained pinheads. We'll see ^^' .

Edit --> WTF? How did this article make me want to install MAME on my phone..?! lol

This message has been edited since its posting. Latest edit was made on 22 Apr 2013 @ 12:11

Originally posted by Bigwillyz: ... And this is why I build classic gaming rigs out of original xboxes.They have 14000+ games for Coleco all the way to the PS1 and my customers absolutely love them, so do I

Originally posted by Bigwillyz: ... And this is why I build classic gaming rigs out of original xboxes.They have 14000+ games for Coleco all the way to the PS1 and my customers absolutely love them, so do I

Original XBOX was a pleasure to mod. Haven't fired it up in awhile, but if you had access to the ROMS and the hack, it is just as good or better than what VC can offer.

Originally posted by KillerBug: It is kinda a gip to make someone repurchase their nes games when the whole reason they cannot play them on the old console is a terrible slot design. Then again, anyone who can't figure out a simple emulator kinda deserves it.

Kind of like how I own a Disney or other studio's movie on VHS? No one's forcing you to buy it, but there is such as thing as modern convenience and not every Wii U user had access to or owned these games when they came out.